Dick Spellman is the President of GDS Associates, Inc. Dick has more than 28 years of strategic planning, economic analysis, market research, renewable energy, energy efficiency and demand response program design, implementation and evaluation experience in the energy industry. Before joining GDS in 1993, he was the Manager of Marketing and Product Development at Central Maine Power Company, and he held several management positions during his 16 years at CMP. Dick has a B.A. in Math/Economics from Dartmouth College and earned an M.S. from Thomas College in 1980.